Autonomous AI Attacks: The Hugging Face Reality Check

For several years the forecast has been constant: AI lowers the skill barrier, AI writes novel malware, AI will soon run attacks end to end with minimal human direction. It is worth noticing where that forecast mostly came from. Not from the people who reverse malware for a living, who were largely skeptical throughout, but from the commentary layer around them: keynote panels, vendor positioning, and an inexhaustible supply of thought leadership. When the practitioners and the podium disagree for years at a stretch, that is usually worth a look.  The skeptics were right, and the reason is more interesting than the one usually offered. The comfortable explanation is that the...

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